Lot: D2A (Taxlots)

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D2A
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In 1660, and until 1880, the Markvelt Steegh began at the Market Field, as it naturally would.[^] The corner house was built by Frederick Arentsen, a turner, from Swartensluys, who came to New Amsterdam in 1654, under contract for three years to Lourens Andriessen, from Boskerk, a master turner. A year before his term expired, on "Sunday Morning," July 23, 1656, he ran away, "without either words or reason," and married Grietje Pieters, of Breda. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 20. His master sued to recover his services, but to no purpose. — Rec. N. Am., II: 144, 148. Having bought his lot from Teunis Tomassen, the mason {Liber Deeds, A: 148), who agreed to take part of the price in chairs, he insisted on having it "deliver^ to him at thirteen inches to the foot," which Tomassen and his wife, Beletje Jacobs, disputed. — Rec. N. Am., II: 327, 331; III: 3, 12. He hired Christian Barensen to build his house; then sued him, in April, 1658, because it was not finished. Barensen answered that no time had been specified, and that he could get no money; finally, that he had turned the contract over to Jacob Leunissen {ibid., VII: 183-5), who finished it by September, 1658. — Mortgages, 1654-1660, trans, by O'Callaghan, 100.

Before the grading and fencing were finished, Arentsen quarreled with his neighbour on the south, Gerrit Hendricksen, attacking him so fiercely with a broom-stick that he broke his own windows in his rage, as all the neighbours testified. — Rec. N. Am., II: 395-6. In 1670, he tore down the south fence again, in a dispute with WarnaerWessels, and was fined 20 guilders and costs. Surveyor Cortelyou was then called in to make a survey in the presence of the mayor, which was to be absolute. — Ibid., VI: 234.

Arentsen was an expert cabinet-maker. Both he and his wife appear to have been extremely contentious. He prospered, however. In 1677, "Mf fFredrick Arients" was taxed here on a high valuation. — M. C. C, I: 53. Riker says {Hist, of Harlem, 143) that this settler was Frederick Arents Bloem, ancestor of the Bloom family of New York.

'] The following quotations are from Eccles. Rec; the liber references are to books of church records. [2] Marketfield St., between Whitehall and New Sts., was sold to the New York Produce Exchange by the City of New York, under authority of Chap. 159, Laws of 1880.